Example sentences of "[vb past] when i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that was quite extraordinary was what I found when I got as far as the back premises . |
| 2 | The crunch came when I found out she was sleeping with a couple of other boyfriends , and I discovered I did n't actually care . |
| 3 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 4 | If he was claiming a grant in yours , I did I claimed when I went back to college , my twenties I actually claimed a grant but my father claimed income tax relief claimed under him . |
| 5 | " I did , doctor , " I said demurely , not elaborating on what happened when I got there . |
| 6 | It barked when I drove in . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You remember how he acted when I came out ? ’ |
| 8 | It started when I got home from hospital after having my baby . |
| 9 | Otley demanded when I got in . |
| 10 | I felt when I came here that I was going backwards . |
| 11 | Well , that 's what I thought when I came round . |
| 12 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 13 | It was not at all sweet for Alfred Noyes I learned when I came back to the boat , for he had a bucket of slops emptied on his head . |
| 14 | ‘ The first thing I did when I came out was try to explain to the kids that we were n't bad people . |
| 15 | Well I did when I came out , I played with erm Jackie and Kelly . |
| 16 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 17 | And talk about me being an honorary man and you know , take the piss out of what I say , like how Geoff [ the Head ] did when I complained bitterly about that bloke [ a workman who had whistled at her ] . |
| 18 | As I did when I found out what he 'd done . ’ |
| 19 | I did when I found out I got two hundred and fifty poonds for it |
| 20 | Oh I cried when I left there , I really did , it upset me . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you said when I came here that you were n't religious . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I said when I came back to Williams that it was a two-year plan , so probably if it is going to happen it has got to be this year because of the way it 's been structured . |
| 23 | She said when I came in , there 's only two in front of you . |
| 24 | What I said when I left still holds good , George . |
| 25 | That 's how much that would be your share if we shared six pizzas between two of us and it 's going to be the same as I said when i said well you share with your mum and Natalie . |
| 26 | I said ooh cos I said when I come here we 're always so busy I said I only get as far as er er the kitchen do n't I ? |
| 27 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 28 | Several informants in my study articulated the view that their parents preferred them to speak British English : Mom — mom likes me to speak mostly English , she said when I go out into , you know , upper class society , and I start speakin " Patois dey might not understand , and take me as an idiot . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember the first thing that I said when I found out was ‘ Right , I 'm never getting married ’ , ’ says Christien . |
| 30 | ‘ I was only called that because all I had when I came here was my duffle coat . ’ |